Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964852AbXADNTS (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 08:19:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964851AbXADNTS (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 08:19:18 -0500 Received: from aa016msg.fastweb.it ([213.140.2.83]:49870 "EHLO aa016msg.fastweb.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964852AbXADNTR (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 08:19:17 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:19:02 +0100 From: Andrea Gelmini To: Nick Piggin Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback Message-ID: <20070104131902.GE28470@gelma.net> References: <200612291859.kBTIx2kq031961@hera.kernel.org> <20061229224309.GA23445@gelma.net> <459734CE.1090001@yahoo.com.au> <20061231135031.GC23445@gelma.net> <459C7B24.8080008@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <459C7B24.8080008@yahoo.com.au> Weight: 77.8 kg (171.51964 lbs) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 577 Lines: 14 On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 02:57:24PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > I wouldn't discount a kernel bug, but it will be hard to track down > unless you can find an earlier kernel that did not cause the corruptions > and/or provide source for a minimal test case to reproduce. see my others reply, please. thanks a lot for your time, gelma - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/